January 2005 Iraqi parliamentary election
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Elections for Iraq's National Assembly are scheduled to occur on January 30, 2005, as required by the Law of Administration for the State of Iraq for the Transitional Period. That constitution provided for an Iraq transitional government to replace the Iraq interim government. Besides the National Assembly, the transitional government will also include the Presidency Council, the Council of Ministers, and the judicial authority.
A 275-member transitional Iraqi National Assembly will be elected in the nationwide balloting. The members of the new National Assembly will be selected from 83 candidate lists, chosen by proportional representation using the Hare quota and the largest remainder method with a threshold of one quota. At least every third member on each list must be female, although if many lists each return small number of assembly members the proportion who are women may fall a little short of an exact third. Most observers expect some 30% of the assembly to be female. The new national assembly will write a permanent constitution, which will then be voted on in a referendum. If the new constitution is passed a new assembly will be elected following the rules laid out in it. Thus this is potentially only the first of three elections that will be held in Iraq this year.
Campaigning for the election began on December 15, 2004. 18 provincial councils and a 111-member council of the Kurdistan Regional Government will be chosen at the same time.
Iraqi expatriates began voting on January 27, 2005.
Lists
The main political factions have united into several coalitions, each competing in a joint list. The coalitions are more closely linked with ethnic and sectarian divisions, than with positions on the political spectrum.
- United Iraqi Alliance (mainly Shia Arab: includes moderate and radical Islamists, liberal secularists, and others)
- Democratic Patriotic Alliance of Kurdistan (mainly Kurdish: includes traditionalists, social democrats, Communists, and Islamists)
- Iraqi List (mainly secular Shia, led by former exile and interim prime minister Iyad Allawi)
- Independent Democrats Movement (secular, led by former exile Adnan Pachachi)
- The Iraqis (mainly tribal Sunni Arabs, led by interim president Ghazi al-Yawer)
- People's Union (Itthad al Shaab, mainly Shia: secular leftists led by the Iraqi Communist Party)
- Iraqi Turkmen Front (Turkmen)
- Assyrian Democratic Movement (Assyrian Christians)
- Independent Alliance of Civil Societies (feminist and human rights groups)
Organized Sunni Arab groups (including the Iraqi Islamic Party, the Association of Muslim Scholars, and the banned Ba‘ath Arab Socialist Party) are boycotting the elections. However, there are Arab Sunnis on the lists of secular parties.
Out-of-country voting
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